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Kim Kardashian seems to have a penchant for custom purses and BlackBerry smartphones. The "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star revealed her proclivity to each item at various events this week just after celebrating her 34th birthday. Speaking with E! News and People just before her birthday festivities at Tao Las Vegas over the weekend, the Kardashian Kollection designer revealed that her husband, rapper Kanye West, enlisted their 16-month-old daughter, North West, in the creation of her birthday present: a hand-painted Hermes bag. “Kanye had a box, a purse, this Hermes purse, and I opened it, and I thought it was so cool. It was all painted really cool, and then...

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